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since 2001, our focus has been on educating the public on public policy. and fostering the future leaders from our minority communities to serve at federal, state, and local levels. the mission is to empower patients and pacific islander americans in civic and public affairs to education, active participation, and leadership development. >> civic engagement, leadership development, and community servthe theme of tonight's evens a celebration of the achievements and accomplishments of asian-americans in the state of california and our nation. >> ok'ing. -- ok. i would like to introduce our host for this evening. very well known as the first asian-american mayor in san francisco history. mayor lee championed balancing the budget to keep san francisco safe, solvents, and successful. he reformed city pensions. his focus is on economic development, job creation, and building san francisco's future. a great job, especially for helping out families. we want to keep families here. i also wanted to mention a little bit of his past. he was born in 1952 in the beacon
since 2001, our focus has been on educating the public on public policy. and fostering the future leaders from our minority communities to serve at federal, state, and local levels. the mission is to empower patients and pacific islander americans in civic and public affairs to education, active participation, and leadership development. >> civic engagement, leadership development, and community servthe theme of tonight's evens a celebration of the achievements and accomplishments of...
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we don't want student's education disrupted. so educational system is our core and responsibility to make sure that that bilingual needs are being met so the educational process is not interrupted. the lau decision impacted schools across the country. for more than 1800 chinese-american children considered in 1973. the decision has also know cited in many language access cases including voter information and ballot information. thanks to those who pursued the la ukase in the 77's students can be multili multilingual. individual bilingualeducation. org. kerny street workshops began as a community teaching space inside the international hotel. after the evictions they relocated but kept their name and community spirit. during the 80's and 90's ksw curated the american jazz festiv festiv festival. it's gallery feature artists and host of the annual ground breaking festival. they remain within the community. kerny street is still home with people can express what it means to be asian american. >> we are celebrating or 35th anniversa
we don't want student's education disrupted. so educational system is our core and responsibility to make sure that that bilingual needs are being met so the educational process is not interrupted. the lau decision impacted schools across the country. for more than 1800 chinese-american children considered in 1973. the decision has also know cited in many language access cases including voter information and ballot information. thanks to those who pursued the la ukase in the 77's students can...
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department of education. his district includes silicon valley, the birthplace of technology. mike has dedicated his life to public service and is lauded for his work on education, civil- rights national service, immigration, transportation, the environment, and high-tech issues. >> he is also the greatest karaoke sing their -- singer and all of congress. -- in all of congress. [applause] >> he just told me i had five minutes. what do you think of this program? [applause] it is about time. i want to thank francis and fong. i think this is the very first statewide heritage month held with the mayor of san francisco. let me say something about heritage month in san francisco and your mayor. in the old days, you remember san francisco was known for passing all of these anti- chinese ordinances to limit the movement, the productivity of chinese in the city. we know two things. change happens. maybe the state of california is the state of golden opportunities, where we have a chinese-american mayor of san francisco. 35 years ago, congress members passed similar resolutions in both
department of education. his district includes silicon valley, the birthplace of technology. mike has dedicated his life to public service and is lauded for his work on education, civil- rights national service, immigration, transportation, the environment, and high-tech issues. >> he is also the greatest karaoke sing their -- singer and all of congress. -- in all of congress. [applause] >> he just told me i had five minutes. what do you think of this program? [applause] it is about...
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for me, it's about education, i think at the end of the day. um, in the, in the scope of issues that, that we're dealing with in the context of this community. i think education is, is well positioned to advance the postservice life course of this nation's veterans, there's a there's a window of opportunity with the current, um, post-911 gi bill. but, we haven't done a great job implementing that, and i'm talking about both government and institutions of higher education. you know, right now, for example, um, 8 of the top 10 recipients is institutions of gi bill money last year, were um, on line for profit universities that have a dropout rate of higher than 65 percent. and they are not held accountable. we need to hold them accountable. very good. i want to remind our audience that september is national recovery month we want to encourage you to go online at www.recoverymonth.gov and find all of the wonderful materials, so everyone can get engaged. and during september, also support military families and vets in their struggle to come back, be
for me, it's about education, i think at the end of the day. um, in the, in the scope of issues that, that we're dealing with in the context of this community. i think education is, is well positioned to advance the postservice life course of this nation's veterans, there's a there's a window of opportunity with the current, um, post-911 gi bill. but, we haven't done a great job implementing that, and i'm talking about both government and institutions of higher education. you know, right now,...
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it could also benefit from the input of house education and work force committee staff who have been focusing on this issue. and these are reasons why i am asking that we strike it. mr. chairman, i offer the amendment number one. >> thanks, senator akaka. we worked very hard on this part of the proposal. senator collins played a really important part. interestingly, the administration through the department of labor actually thought the proposal that we made was moving in so much the right direction to reduce unnecessary cost without compromising reasonable expectations for employees of workers' compensation that this particular provision of this legislation relates to all federal employees. not just to employees of the postal service. this is numerically justified because the u.s. -- and this is again, senator moran, one of the ways in which it's quasi independent and is interconnected to the postal service because we're part of the -- as the postal service is part of the federal workers' compensation program, it happens to be the largest participant in the federal government worker
it could also benefit from the input of house education and work force committee staff who have been focusing on this issue. and these are reasons why i am asking that we strike it. mr. chairman, i offer the amendment number one. >> thanks, senator akaka. we worked very hard on this part of the proposal. senator collins played a really important part. interestingly, the administration through the department of labor actually thought the proposal that we made was moving in so much the...
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to give you the opportunity to educate you say you're not interested in reading e-mails of americans. so what type of data would you want to be getting from the private sector in realtime and if you got it, what would you do, network feed to block or prevent and attack and do you have the authorities that you need to do so right now? >> that's a great question and thanks for that, because i do think going into that a little deeper is absolutely important. so in the interests of making this understandable, i'm going to use signature a, signature b, signature c, which could be pieces of metal ware, remember that a machine is going to see this in exa decimal format, but ports that come in your system, could be the ip address it comes from or the website or some combination thereof. what the anti-virus world does is it maps that out and creates what's called a signature. so let's tall that signature a and let's say, sir, you're the power grid. if signature a were to hit or try to get into the power grid, we need to know that signature a, who's trying to get into the power grid and came fr
to give you the opportunity to educate you say you're not interested in reading e-mails of americans. so what type of data would you want to be getting from the private sector in realtime and if you got it, what would you do, network feed to block or prevent and attack and do you have the authorities that you need to do so right now? >> that's a great question and thanks for that, because i do think going into that a little deeper is absolutely important. so in the interests of making...